TWO foreigners, who landed a plane at Mahdia, Region Eight, were, on Friday, sentenced to two years imprisonment for operating a civil aircraft without an airworthiness certificate and fined a total of $11M each for three other aircraft-related charges. Juan David Caicedo Villa, a 32-year-old pilot of Villavicencio, Colombia, and Gustavo Adolfo Riascos Gomez, a…
FORMER Bishops’ High School teacher, Coen Jackson, was, on Friday, awarded $6M in damages and costs, after he won his defamation case against former Cultural Policy Advisor, Ruel Johnson. The damages in the claim filed by Jackson in 2019, through his attorneys, Nigel Hughes and Savannah Barnwell, were awarded by Justice Navindra Singh at the…
STATE prosecutor, Cicelia Corbin, on Friday, closed her case against Shawn DosSantos and Stephon Howard, who are on trial for the 2017 murder of Fazal Shaheed at his Freeman Street, East La Penitence house. The matter is being heard by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court. The two accused, who are also residents…
AS the Christmas Season approaches, an across-the-board increase of seven per cent was announced for public servants, teachers, members of the Disciplined Services, constitutional office holders, and government pensioners, by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh. The announcement was highly anticipated all year, as government officials,…
— Canter truck driver in police custody LLOYD Valcin, 42, and his 31-year-old wife, Olisa Valcin, on Thursday afternoon died in a crash on Caledonia Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) while another occupant of the vehicle, Shaquel Williams, 20, of Blueberry Hill, Linden was injured in the accident. Fifty-year-old Carl Craig of Lot 150…
The unlikelihood of any foreign competitor at the 19th edition of the South American 10k in Guyana, once again makes it an all-Guyanese tussle to the finish. The usually exciting race returns to its traditional spot on Carifesta Avenue, heads up to the East Coast and returns to conclude in the National Park, unlike 2020…
– five-year assessment shows WHILE suicide in Guyana have generally captured the attention of policy-makers and technocrats alike, the higher statistics of the phenomenon among men has seized the attention of Human Services and Social Security Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud. During an observance of International Men’s Day 2021, Dr Persaud told a gathering at the…
Former national athlete Aliann Pompey on Friday announced that her fifth ‘AP’ Invitational Track and Field event, will now be held on June 18, 2022, at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora. This comes after the event that was set to be hosted on June 19 this year, had to be cancelled, citing the…
THE hydropower that can be generated from the Amaila Falls project will bring enormous benefits to the manufacturing sector, including affordable and reliable energy. This was the view of President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Rafeek Khan, as well as Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean, who were both guests of the National…
Three more unvaccinated people who tested positive for COVID-19 died on Friday, taking the country’s death toll to 971. These latest deaths also mean that 42 people have died for the month of November thus far. A 27-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) is among the latest deaths; two females, a 53-year-old from Region Three…
